There’s a famous Australian poem called ‘Said Hanrahan’, written by a Roman Catholic priest, in which the titular protagonist keeps declaring “We’ll all be rooned”, meaning ruined or stuffed.

First, he’s worried about a drought. Then the rains arrive, so he’s worried about a flood. Predictably, the rains stop, and there’s a fantastic crop — so he worries about bushfires.

If he were alive today, he would probably have every right to be concerned.

But when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, lambasted as the greatest policy failure in modern Australian history by ex-politicians and newspaper columnists, premonitions of doom are unwarranted.